Posted on 05/15/2013 8:21:00 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Nice. Thanks.
A word on knives.
If you are going to get one, get one with a nice grip and HAND GUARD!! This keeps your hand from sliding down and getting slice on the blade if you have to stab something hard (harder than you think it is)
Just picture your knife and a stack of pork loin or something at home. If you had to stab through it would your hand slide down the blade and you end up hurting yourself? Especially if slippery blood was involved?
(many homicides are solved this way- when a person stabs someone their hand slides down the blad and they cut themselves)
And if it is a folding knife (not preferred) MAKE SURE THE LOCKING MECH IS NOT A P.O.S.
You dont want your survival gear to help kill you, and a wonded hand can seriously put you out of commission.
I make my daughters wear gloves when helping me around the house for exactly this reason. If you hurt your hands you are useless.
damm i hate myself for not proofreading better
bkmk
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Good thoughts in that article on staging levels of gear to the mission/goal. Keeping those thoughts in mind can do much do reduce the EDC to the real necessities while having the other items either close at hand or able to be recovered quickly.
JMHO but I carry a very large and heavy backpack in my vehicle. It (hopefully) has everything I need, or could need. I don’t plan to carry it as is. I plan to carry only the essentials based on the situation I find myself in and leave the rest behind. Or if I have to shelter in place in my vehicle I have (again hopefully) everything I need.
Lockbacks are crappy locking mechanisms for a folding fighting knife. Okay for a picnic, fugheddaboudit for a save-your-life situation.
Though I haven't even come close to evaluating all the new-fangled locking mechanisms for folders that are on the market today, my favorites are the the old standbys, the so-called "linerlocks" (also sometimes called sidelocks) from highly-regarded tactical knife makers: Benchmade, SOG, etc. Old-fashioned, I guess.
For fixed blade, it's impossible to beat a Ka-Bar for value and its almost idiot-proof indestructibility. imo.
As I have told the libs that I know I store very little when it happens I will take everything I need from them since I know they are not armed. Why waste my money? Talk about making someone mad.
Plus 1 on liner/frame locks.
Another thought..
I’ve got several serrated blade knives. I’ve yet to find them equal to or better than a straight blade.
There may be an instance or two where they are advantage but I’ve not found it.
All my purchases from now on will be straight blade.
JMO
Good info, but it’s also going to depend on who is going to carry it.
Somewhere along the way, I read you should be able to carry a 30lb pack over 20 miles in 6.5 hours. I’m in pretty good shape - I did it, but it kicked my butt (plus who has time to train like that every day?)
Can’t see a kid or geezer doing that, especially in a high pressure Bug-Out scenario.
I'm with you! I've got a lot of half-serrated, half-straight knives. I quit buying them a long time ago. Supposedly, they are better for cutting seat belts to get yourself or someone else out of a car in an emergency situation where the seat belt's buckle can't be accessed, or cutting through similarly tough material.
I can see where that might be true, but do I want half my knife's blade given over to a function that I'll only find halfway useful in one-in-a-thousand situations? No. I don't think I'll ever really need serrations. I'm getting older, but I'm still strong enough I can muscle my way through any conceivable material that needs to be cut with a straight blade, so why compromise (and I do look at it as an unsatisfactory compromise) my good knives. Save the serrated knives for cutting bread!
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Sharp, pointy stuff ping.
I'm a big believe in redundancy, including knives. Even my smallest bags have enough room for a decent fixed-blade knife, a folding (one-handed or assisted opening) knife, and some sort of pry bar that is heavy enough to spring open a car or house door/window.
I continually check out new stuff, and if I comer across a "keeper", it will go into my "most likely bag", and the older item will start a "trickle down" into other bags as time allows.
Watched a old man skilled in escrima tear up an aggressor with two of the six dollar Oxo brand paring knives he carried 24/7 as tools of his martial arts skills.... Responded to the call vs watched really . Yet the scene was very ugly and all the other bad guys did not try and help their friend who had attacked this old guy with the Oxo paring knives.....
Razor sharp and thin knives....
My Randall 14 and Terzoula ACTF wait’a minute knives have their place as working tools during my career in EOD but something just warm and fuzzy about the large grip on that Oxo blade as a fixed blade carry knife for self defense, concealed .....:o)
bkmk
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